Summary

Punching a virtual response box or swinging a virtual lightsaber can dramatically improve learning on certain tasks, according to new research from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science, which challenges long-standing assumptions about how people learn. Deciding whether a road is slippery, recognizing a potentially dangerous lesion on a medical scan or determining whether a piece of fruit is ripe may seem like tasks of the mind alone.

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